IN THE HEIGHTS 
CRAZY RICH ASIANS 
JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS 
Jon M. Chu, the director of "Crazy Rich Asians" and "In the Heights," is taking on the land of Oz. He has inherited filmmaking duties from Stephen Daldry on "Wicked," Universal's big-screen adaptation of the hit musical.Daldry departed the project, which has been in the works for over a decade, last October due to scheduling conflicts. It's still unclear who will star in the film, or when it will be released. "Wicked" was taken off Universal's film schedule amid the...
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The pandemic pushed back the release of Chu’s Warner Bros. big screen adaptation of the Quiara Alegría Hudes/Lin-Manuel Miranda Broadway musical “In the Heights,” set in a New York City Latino neighborhood, to June 2021. But his career is still zooming forward on the momentum of his 2018 film “Crazy Rich Asians,” which grossed $238.5 million worldwide and proved the commercial viability of Asian-themed films. He executive produced the Apple TV Plus series “Home Before Dark,” as well as directed several of its episodes, while prepping a series about the 2018 Thai cave rescue for Netflix and a pair of “Crazy Rich Asians” sequels for Warner Bros. He’s also developing projects under his four-year overall deal with Disney’s 20th Television, including the medical drama “Triage.”
